Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals

9:00 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will pull up the exact numbers in a second. The overall recruitment of consultants is a real factor and a very real issue for us. Attracting consultants for posts that are advertised has been a real issue for us over the past couple of years in particular and remains one. I will come back to the Deputy with the exact number shortly but we have had a reasonable recruitment of consultants over the past year in last year's numbers. The issue in attracting consultants is one of concern for ourselves. Just in terms of Cork, they will reallocate consultancy skills within and across the group and that has taken place. On gaps in the number of consultants and on the number of consultants we need and want to have in the service, it is a real issue that we are dealing with right now.

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